2017 Ford F-150
This year drew 3,217 complaints against a median of 2,553 across the Ford F-150's other years, 1.3× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 18 recalls, listed below.
Generation 3 of the Ford F-150, which began in 2015 and ran to 2020. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 3,217 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 2,553 |
| Involving a crash | 107 |
| Involving a fire | 57 |
| Recalls | 18 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 18V894000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V278000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V568000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V652000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 17V529000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V526000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V331000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
- 17V053000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 18. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford F-150 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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